Tag: 2020 bushfires
Exhibition: Above the Canopy celebrates the Australian environment- Now open at Town Hall Gallery
OPEN NOW
Saturday 9 July - Saturday 24 September 2022
Town Hall Gallery presents the new exhibition Above the Canopy, celebrating the rich and diverse beauty of the Australian...
Entire hillsides of trees turned brown this summer. Is it the start of ecosystem collapse?
Picture: Rachael Nolan, CC BY-NC
The drought in eastern Australia was a significant driver of this season’s unprecedented bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity...
The burn legacy: why the science on hazard reduction is contested
Jason Edwards/PR handout image
When it comes to reducing the extent of bushfires, scientists disagree on the best way to do it. Hazard-reduction burning (also...
No food, no fuel, no phones: bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from system collapse
Bushfires reveal a story we need to hear.
Picture: Australian Navy
This summer’s bushfires were not just devastating events in themselves. More broadly, they highlighted...
We have the vaccine for climate disinformation – let’s use it
Exposing people to likely disinformation campaigns about bushfire
causes will help inoculate them. JASON O'BRIEN/AAP
Australia’s recent bushfire crisis will be remembered for many things –...
Beware of bushfire scams: how fraudsters take advantage of those in need
Australians were also cheated out of A$400,000 last year in
charity scams. Dean Lewins/AAP
There’s been an overwhelming outpouring of love and support around the...